Ecosystem of Kernels

The Pre-Cloud Paradigm

Before cloud computing, developers bore the burden of constructing, operating, and maintaining all requisite programs and services. This paradigm engendered prohibitive costs, scalability constraints, accessibility challenges, and resource limitations. Cloud computing revolutionized this landscape, introducing managed services where back-end infrastructures are handled by cloud providers.

Before and after cloud

KRNL’s Transformative Potential

KRNL aims to catalyze a similar paradigm shift within the Web3 domain—a permissionless Web3 environment built by the community through contributions of monetizable kernels. This vision aligns with the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, reimagined to suit the decentralized and heterogeneous fabric of blockchain ecosystems.

Before and after KRNL

Functions as a Service (FaaS) in the Web3 Context

FaaS is a category of cloud computing services that provide a platform enabling customers to develop, run and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure associated with developing and launching an app. Examples of a traditional FaaS include AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions, etc.

The conventional FaaS model does not fit well in distributed and heterogeneous blockchain environments, where each blockchain is a silo and not efficient in the context of the whole Web3 ecosystem. To adapt this concept to Web3, it is essential to ensure decentralized registry, management, and execution of kernels.